Before there were bugs... by DeepRed
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Description
"Professor Babbage! We need more mousetraps!"
The real reason why Charles Babbage couldn't get the Analytical Engine to work. And yes, it really was that big.
Additional credits:
Melody Hair by Valea @DAZ3D
Analytical Engine by KarlGarnham
Mouse by JTrout
Pillars by JoeKurz
Shaders by GeorgeHaze
Comments (5)
karl.garnham1
LOL I love the way you have used my engine and made a nice joke very funny. Yes I can imagine it was hard to convert I am glad you got a use out of it I have a model of the difference engine 2 on here also if you are interested. 5+ this will make me laugh for quite some time pity Babbage isn't alive to see this Well Done Karl
giulband
Excellent work !!
Cyve
Wonderfully done !
62guy
Nice - as a historical note, the "computers" the U.S. and Japan used to help control their shipboard AA guns weighed more than a ton each.
62guy
(During WW-II)
aubedo
Nice image... ----- Möglicherweise war es eine Zeitungsente... Aber ich glaube, irgendwo ist darüber geschrieben worden, das versucht worden ist, eine lauffähige Kopie der Differenzmaschine zu bauen und sich dabei herausgestellt haben soll, das es am fehlerhaften Einbau eines einzigen Zahnrades gelegen haben soll... Nicht auszudenken, wenn die Differenzmaschine vereint worden wäre mit den frühen elektrotechnischen Erfindungen von Faraday, Oersted, Jacobi (baute in St. Petersburg den ersten Elektromotor, weit vor Siemens u.a.), Reiss (Telephon, vor Graham Bell)... Maybe it was a hoax ... But I think, somewhere has been written about it, which has been trying to build an executable copy of the Difference Engine and is said to have been found here, that the the faulty installation of an single gear caused its disfunctionality... We can not imagine what happened if the difference engine would have been united with the early electrical inventions of Faraday, Oersted, Jacobi (built in St. Petersburg the first electric motor, long before Siemens and others), Gauss (Telegraph, before Morse), Reiss (telephone, before Graham Bell) .., Popov (Spark-gap transmitter, before Marconi)